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A Good Read: Mick Aston and Penelope Leach

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05/01/1999

Mick Aston and Penelope Leach

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Mick and Penelope discuss paperbacks by Oliver Rackham, RL Stevenson and William Golding.

4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, archaeologist Mick Aston and childcare specialist Penelope Leach discuss paperbacks by Oliver Rackham, RL Stevenson and William Golding. From Jan 1999.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, archaeologist Mick Aston and childcare specialist Penelope Leach, discuss three favourite paperbacks by Oliver Rackham, RL Stevenson and William Golding. From 1999. 

The Illustrated History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham 
Publisher: Phoenix 

Travels with a Donkey by RL Stevenson 
Publisher: Everyman 

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 
Publisher: Faber & Faber.

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